trix vs bootstrap-wysihtml5

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trix		bootstrap-wysihtml5
	Project
31	Mentions	-
18,617	Stars	4,147
2.3%	Growth	-
7.4	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

trix

Posts with mentions or reviews of trix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

WYSIWYG editor for a new Rails project
6 projects | /r/rails | 10 Dec 2023

Trix was the winner. It was easy to style, is well maintained, has documentation for embedding it into a form, is easy to create custom keyboard shortcuts for, has great examples on how to save/load content or modify it with javascript.
Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2023
How to use Cloudflare R2 with Ruby on Rails Active Storage
2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jun 2023

In some case, you may need to allow the user to upload the file in the text editor like Trix editor. However, you current configuration not allowed it, you need to configure the CORS. Here the configuration
Formatting tags in reviews
1 project | /r/TheStoryGraph | 22 Jun 2023

I inspected the text editor and it looks like it's something called Trix. The example on their website has a hyperlink button. No idea how to add links in StoryGraph though, besides the workaround the other user mentioned. Maybe ask Nadia on Instagram or Twitter - she's super responsive!
Managers want to build a Web Rich Text Editor from scratch - Seems like bad idea
2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 20 Mar 2023

I'm sure something like Trix (used in Ruby on Rails) would probably do the job - https://trix-editor.org/
Usando Action Text em Rails 7
1 project | dev.to | 16 Dec 2022
Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2022

For this, you can add a small, isolated component to the page. An example from Rails is the Trix rich text editor: it is a standard web component.
Is Trix/ActionText Dead?
1 project | /r/rails | 1 Aug 2022

I have been implementing a kind of blog builder using ActionText and Trix. However, understanding how Trix works, customizing it, and making image uploads possible, seems not very well documented. Also, looking at Trix's Github page there doesn't seem to be a lot of activity.
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2022
My project: railstart app
47 projects | /r/rails | 12 Jun 2022

Text Editor: trix and TinyMCE

bootstrap-wysihtml5

Posts with mentions or reviews of bootstrap-wysihtml5. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning bootstrap-wysihtml5 yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing trix and bootstrap-wysihtml5 you can also consider the following projects:

quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility.

TinyMCE - The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

ckeditor-releases - Official distribution releases of CKEditor 4.

Froala Editor - The next generation Javascript WYSIWYG HTML Editor.

Summernote - Super simple WYSIWYG editor

SimpleMDE - A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

tiptap - The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.

ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor

vuetify - 🐉 Vue Component Framework